5Regulation and Communication Technologies
Introduction
The Race Between Technology & Law
Do you use TikTok, YouTube, Instagram, or Snapchat? Do you post pictures or videos to these sites? Do you forward posts to others? In other words, do you use social media? A majority of American adults do, with particularly high rates among those ages 18 to 24 (Perrin & Anderson, 2019)
If you do, you are—whether you know it or not—involved in a race with the law, in which the law is inevitably doomed to always be behind. As has been true with the development of what we now call “legacy media,” ...
